Arun Kundnani is delivering the 2016 Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture. Saturday 23 January 2016, 2.30pm Small Hall, The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street, London WC1H 9AU Speaker: Arun Kundnani is the author of The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain and The Muslims Are Coming Related links Peace & Progress Download a flyer here (word doc,
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Shake! Showcase: Resistance is Fertile
A showcase featuring poetic, filmic & musical responses to injustice from the participants on the 2015 Shake! courses. Tuesday 26 January 2016, 7.30pm Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Related links Voices That Shake! Buy tickets from Rich Mix here Facebook event listing View a flyer here
Voices of the spied upon
The Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (COPS) is holding a public meeting. Thursday 21 January 2016, 6.30-8.30pm Diskus Room, Unite, 128 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8TN Speakers include: Kate Wilson Janet Alder Jules Carey Stafford Scott Lois Austin (Chair) Related links Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (COPS) View details of the meeting here View a flyer here
Calendar of racism and resistance (4-17 December 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing & criminal justice 3 December: Babacar Guèye, a 27-year-old Senegalese man, dies after being shot five times by a police officer in Rennes in north-west France. Guèye attempted to self-harm with a bread knife before his friend
Remembering Jan Carew: the gentle revolutionary
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A book launch at the Claudia Jones Organisation in Hackney for two books by the late Jan Carew was an inspirational event. Jan Carew was a giant of a man – an artist, an author, a poet, a teacher and he was very tall too. The occasion was the publication of two books, one a
NYE: London prisoner solidarity demo
A solidarity demonstration with prisoners with music and noise on New Year’s Eve. Thursday 31 December 2015, 8pm at HMP Pentonville, Caledonian Road, London N7 8TT from 8pm HMP Holloway, Parkhusrt Road, London N7 0NU at 9.30pm Related links Facebook event listing London ABC
NYE: Brixton Prison demo
A solidarity demonstration with prisoners with music and noise on New Year’s Eve. Thursday 31 December 2015, 6pm HMP Brixton, Jebb Avenue, London SW2 5XF Related links Facebook event listing
Calendar of racism and resistance (20 November – 3 December 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 20 November: The House of Commons Justice Committee recommends the scrapping of the criminal courts charge in its report: Criminal courts charge. Second Report of Session 2015–16. Download it here. 23 November: The Centre for
Donald Kenrick, 1929 – 2015
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Marc Willers QC, remembers one of the UK’s foremost authorities on Romani Studies and campaigner for Gypsy rights. It was with great sadness that I learnt that Dr Donald Kenrick had recently passed away. I first met Donald over twenty years ago, whilst he was acting as an unqualified planning consultant for a Romani Gypsy
Kavala, Greece – London Antifa solidarity tour
A London Anti-Fascists tour with an anti-fascist from Kavala, Greece to raise awareness and solidarity for their struggle against fascists and state repression. Saturday 5 December 2015, 7-11pm Larc, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES Related links London Anti-Fascists Facebook event listing